LONDON – European scale-up of an artificial intelligence tool for stratifying and personalizing treatment of COVID-19 patients according to the type of complications they are likely to experience will get underway in September, following initial validation. The tool, developed by researchers at the Hospital Clinic Barcelona, Spain, was ‘trained’ on more than a trillion anonymized data points retrieved from the clinic’s electronic health records system.
SAO PAULO, Brazil – Latin America is following the lead of other developed markets by ramping up its focus on personalized medicine, but there are challenges, including the higher costs of those medicines and a lack of regulations.